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On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:35:49 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Apr 12, 1:51*pm, aem > wrote:
>> On Apr 12, 10:28 am, Cindy Hamilton >
>> wrote:
>>
>> > On Apr 12, 12:35 pm, aem > wrote:

>>
>> > > When you buy in Vegas, be willing to pay the higher price for wild-
>> > > caught salmon. *It is superior in every way.

>>
>> > "Every" way? *I beg to differ. *I recognize that it is more healthful,
>> > and
>> > better for the envirohnment, but I don't like the taste of it. *I
>> > prefer the milder
>> > taste of farmed salmon.

>>
>> You may be right that the farmed stuff tastes "milder." *I haven't had
>> it for years, since they reported about how the farms really work. *We
>> know that the farmed fish can't get as much exercise and aren't
>> exposed to the colder, deeper waters so it figures they won't grow and
>> develop the same way. *But I grew up catching and cooking the wild
>> fish so the thought of something "milder" just doesn't appeal. * *-aem

>
>I'm from the Midwest. Many Midwesterners won't eat fish at all,
>because
>it's too, you know, fishy.


I think you must mean salt-water fish, not fresh-water fish.

I'm from the midwest. Fresh-water fish (trout, bass) were very
popular.

And in my experience, those who eschew fish because it's too "fishy"
are preparing it wrong and/or using fish that are not fresh.